• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Thursdays at 5pm
• Web Address: http://www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk/events
• Organising department: Centre for African Studies

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Teaching Africa’
  Various Speakers

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Between Rootedness and Rootlessness: How Sedentarist and Nomadic Metaphysics Simultaneously Challenge and Reinforce (Dual) Citizenship Claims for Liberia’
  Robtel Neajai Pailey (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Send war in our time, O Lord!' Liberal violence and its afterlives: towards a cultural history of the African Resistance Movement (ARM)'
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Mau Mau and Rastafari: Kenya’s War in Jamaica at the End of Empire’
  Myles Osborne (University of Colorado)

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The Gambela Years: SPLA soldiers' memories of exile, 1983-1991’
  Sebabatso Manoeli (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Cholera and the Politics of Disposability in Harare's High-Density Townships’
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Queer provocations, nightlife and popular culture in Kinshasa’
  Thomas Hendriks (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Understanding Zimbabwe: from Liberation to Authoritarianism
  Dr Sara Dorman (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Clean my Chinese wife”: Intimacy and identity politics of Nigerian migrants in Southern China
  Yu Qiu (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - [Book launch] Writing a new history for South Sudan: whose history and for whom?
  Dr Douglas Johnson

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lagos temporalities: Negotiating urban mobilities in an age of mobile telephony
  Naluwembe Binaisa (University College London)
• 17:00 - Youth Waithood, Forced Migration, and the Transnational Negotiation of “Fortress” Europe: Case Studies of Congolese Migrants
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Kankonde Bukasa (University of the Witwatersrand and University of Notre Dame)

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Same Love: A Kenyan Gay Music Video as an African Queer Imaginary
  Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds)

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lagos Girl Power: Performing Postfeminism in Nigeria
  Dr Simidele Dosekun (University of Sussex)

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Anthropology as Vulnerology? Reading Possibility into the City's Sutures
  Filip De Boeck (University of Leuven (Belgium))

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Decolonial Citizenship: African Women’s Political Practices in Contested Spaces
  Dr Annette Joseph-Gabriel (University of Arizona )

Thursday 27 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - How to Rig an Election: Reflections on Ten Years of Studying Democracy
  Nic Cheeseman

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya
  Paul Ocobock (Notre Dame)

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Laughing about Corruption in Chinese-Ethiopian Encounters
  Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Bars, Branches, Stereos and Choppers: Innovation in Election Campaign Technologies in Tanzania
  Dan Paget (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - From the Zariba to the Museum: Violence, Globalisation and Material Culture in Nineteenth Century South Sudan
  Zoe Cormack (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ndinga i Sinsu: A Quest for Kongo Art
  Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (Stanford)

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Words and Deeds: African Migrants in Europe
  Michael Jackson (Harvard)

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - China and Africa: a Diplomatic Perspective
  Ambassador Jianhua Zhong, Yuzhou Sun (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Astor Lecture 2017: ‘Toward a Post-Mortem of the African Revolution: Rethinking the Global Sixties’
  Jean Allman (Washington)

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Economic globalisation, poverty and human trafficking in Nigeria
  Daisy Onyige (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Social Dimensions of Land Rights Reform in Liberia
  David Brown (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Citizens for Justice; struggles against violence and predation in wartorn South Sudan
  Rachel Ibreck (Goldsmiths)

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch 'Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport in an African Metropolis'
  Matteo Rizzo (SOAS)

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Why is the Horn different?
  Professor Christopher Clapham (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Negotiating with China: African agency and challenges
  TBA

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Taking normative politics in Africa seriously: can we conceptualize "accessibility" as a political value? Case studies from Southwest Nigeria
  Portia Roelofs (London School of Economics)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From rebel movement to political party: UNITA's social engagement in post-war Angola
  Justin Pearce (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
  Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
  Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Affective Communities: Letter Writing and Politics in Independent Kenya, 1963-75
  TBA

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The politics of things’: digital media, urban space and the materiality of civic engagement
  Wendy Willems (London School of Economics)

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Assessing the African human subject through social science experimentation and Randomized Control Trials
  Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - African Studies Centre Seminar - Special Issue Launch - Student Activism in an Era of Decolonisation
  Dan Hodgkinson (University of Oxford), Luke Melchiorre (Universidad de los Andes), Marcia Schenck (Freie Universitat Berlin)